Garden Picture Thread!

[Mexican_Hippie]

I wouldn't do pressure treated directly against the soil. You'd probably still be better off than eating McD fries, but I just wouldn't do it.

 

[TheDan]

I wouldn't do pressure treated directly against the soil. You'd probably still be better off than eating McD fries, but I just wouldn't do it.

lol... Their fries aren't nearly as good as they were when they cooked them in beef tallow.

 

[jpatm2]

Pineapples and aloe vera planted in pots. Hopefully they will love living outside most of the year.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

The stack is getting bigger...

 

[Tony2]

Looking good MH cucumbers did extremely well here to got tired up putting them up now its okra. Is that green salsa or just peppers got a lot of peppers to put up also. Recipe

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Salsa, japapenos, pickled okra, pickled cucumbers. A few different recipes, some whole, some cut, just to keep it all mixed up.

The latest batches have habanero in them to kick em up a notch.


I also have quite a bit of okra I've already vacuum packed and in the freezer. I have a dozen okra plants. Stuff is ridiculous - have to pick it almost every day.

I like okra and tomatoes, with some onions/shallots, bacon and sometimes shrimp or whitetail/elk sausage.

 

[matefrio]

Just remember that tomatoes never get ripe when it's above 95 degrees out. They'll stay green and die.

 

[TheDan]

I'm currently suffering from small berries...

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Those look like the little wild ones that never get real big.

 

[matefrio]

I'm currently suffering from small berries...

Not much you can do about the berries but if you handle them a bit every day the vine will get thicker and longer........

 

[Mike1234567]

Is it appropriate to show one's dangling berries on a public forum?

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Those look like the little wild ones that never get real big.

This. Kinda hard to find the franken-strawberries that you buy at the grocery store in plant form. Most are smaller more wild varieties.

 

[Tony2]

Are those first year plants. Strawberries have a few requirements to get started. first getting planted to the right depth, second no fruit the first year pull all blooms and fruit as soon as possible allowing the plant to get well established. there are some soil requirements I don't remember off hand

 

[Bozz10mm]

Just remember that tomatoes never get ripe when it's above 95 degrees out. They'll stay green and die.

That is something I did not know. But it explains a lot.

 

[TheDan]

Are those first year plants. Strawberries have a few requirements to get started. first getting planted to the right depth, second no fruit the first year pull all blooms and fruit as soon as possible allowing the plant to get well established. there are some soil requirements I don't remember off hand

Yeah they are first year plants. I didn't know strawberries needed such care. I remember as a kid we had some strawberries in the garden that didn't do anything for a couple years so my dad got tired of them and just bush-hogged over them one fall. The next year the strawberries came back with a vengeance, took over that section of the garden with their vines, and we had great berries after that

I shall google what berries need... Thanks!

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

The stack is getting bigger...

Do we have a canning thread?

 

[Tony2]

I think I saw an old one. Next to the quilting and Tupperware party thread. Oh wow.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Do we have a canning thread?

If it's the royal "we" then no, lol

If it's a general forum question, I haven't seen one

 

[TheDan]

Do we have a canning thread?

There was one awhile back but not a whole lot of interest. I really like canning, tho... Bought a large pressure cooker just so I could can my chili and stews.

 

[Tony2]

I got a pressure canner for chrismas. With the canned my winter beets and almost everything since. Have planned the stew just havnt done it yet